Mick writes: > PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more > verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting?
Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E to edit, and remove the 'quiet' kernel parameter. The Grub menu still does not appear? Then you may have to comment the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT* values in /etc/default/grub, and run update-grub. It's so simple, isn't it! Wonko